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are seldom long-lived ; but while they 

 are in health they will run a jackal 

 across the Indian plains as gaily as 

 they would a fox over the Hampshire 

 Downs. The meet is very early in the 

 morning, as the scent then lies, and 

 riding is not too great an exertion. The 

 ground drawn is not the familiar English 

 covert, but fields, watercourses, and old 

 buildings. A strong dog-jackal goes 

 away at a great pace, and as the ground 

 is open the animal is often in view for 

 the greater part of the run ; but it 

 keeps well ahead of the hounds often 

 for three or four miles, and if it does 

 not escape into a hole or ruin is usually 

 pulled down by them. Major-General 

 R. S. S. Baden-Powell has written 

 and illustrated an amusing account of 

 his days with the fox-hounds of South 

 Africa hunting jackals. The local Boer 

 farmers, rough, unkempt, and in ragged 

 trousers, used to turn up smoking their 

 pipes to enjoy the sport with the 

 smartly got-up English officers. When 

 once the game was found, they were just 

 as excited as the Englishmen, and on 

 their Boer ponies rode just as hard, and 

 with perhaps more judgment. 



Photo by L. Midland, F.Z.S.] 



TURKISH JACKAL. 



[North Finchley. 



This jackal is common in both Turkey in Europe and in Asia. Near 

 Constantinople it feeds largely on the bodies buried in the cemeteries 

 at Scutari. 



Photo ly A. S. liudland & Sons. 



MANED WOLF. 

 A South American animal ; its coat is a chestnut-red. 



Jackals are said to be much increasing 

 in South Africa since the outbreak of the 

 war. The fighting has so far arrested 

 farming operations that the war usually 

 maintained on all beasts which destroy cattle 

 or sheep has been allowed to drop. In parts 

 of the more hilly districts both the jackal 

 and the leopard are reappearing where they 

 have not been common for years, and it 

 will take some time before these enemies of 

 the farmer are destroyed. 



THE MANED WOLF. 



This is by far the largest of several 

 peculiar South American species of the Dog 

 Family which we have not room to mention. 

 It occurs in Paraguay and adjoining regions, 

 and is easily distinguishable by its long 

 limbs and large ears. It is chestnut-red in 

 colour, with the lower part of the legs 

 black, and is solitary in its habits. 



